Florida to California trip help
We are 60 year olds and are pretty new to RVing. We have a class A 35 foot Fleetwood Bounder. We want to travel from Tampa, FL and head west. We love to visiting Natl. Parks and enjoy site seeing i...
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Your phrase "no time restrictions" opens up a wonderful travel experience. Nothing says you have to burn up the miles every day. Successive days of a hundred or fewer miles are entirely possible for you. And if you find a nice place you can lay over for a few days with no pressure to move on.
If you are heading west this time of year you will of course pretty much have to follow the Gulf Coast to stay with the good weather.
In the panhandle of Florida be sure to check out Apalachicola if you aren't already familiar with the town. They have some great camping in that area and a nice restaurant right on the water there in town.
You can follow the coast clear over to Pensacola west of there but some people prefer to bail because of the congestion and make better time going north a ways and then west. Your call on that obviously. And this may all be local information for you so excuse me on that if so.
When you get over into Louisiana think about taking route 82 South out of Abbeville (Cajun country) in a big loop down through a real isolated area through Pecan Island over to Sabine Pass at Port Arthur, Texas. It's a great drive though isolated swamp land at near sea level. At Cameron you have to take a ferry across a narrow water channel. Cost is practically nothing though.
Texas has a great state park system and if you would plan on spending time visiting them you might want to check into a yearly day pass so you don't get charge that entry fee at every park you visit. You still pay for the camping though.
In the Houston area you might want to check out the Johnson Space Center where the original control room for the moon missions still exists. No longer used of course.
And be sure to stop by San Antonio and visit the Alamo and their Riverwalk.
Further west there is the Big Bend Park and near there is also Fort Davis up in a little mountain area that has a great state campground. Many of the buildings from that old Indian War era Army post are still standing.
And if you're into some strange things also in that area is the famous Marfa lights. Maybe if you're lucky going through there you could see them some night.
Near El Paso is White Sands National Monument which is well worth checking out. It's quite an impressive place.
I hope this gives you a few ideas to get started. Good traveling.
If you are heading west this time of year you will of course pretty much have to follow the Gulf Coast to stay with the good weather.
In the panhandle of Florida be sure to check out Apalachicola if you aren't already familiar with the town. They have some great camping in that area and a nice restaurant right on the water there in town.
You can follow the coast clear over to Pensacola west of there but some people prefer to bail because of the congestion and make better time going north a ways and then west. Your call on that obviously. And this may all be local information for you so excuse me on that if so.
When you get over into Louisiana think about taking route 82 South out of Abbeville (Cajun country) in a big loop down through a real isolated area through Pecan Island over to Sabine Pass at Port Arthur, Texas. It's a great drive though isolated swamp land at near sea level. At Cameron you have to take a ferry across a narrow water channel. Cost is practically nothing though.
Texas has a great state park system and if you would plan on spending time visiting them you might want to check into a yearly day pass so you don't get charge that entry fee at every park you visit. You still pay for the camping though.
In the Houston area you might want to check out the Johnson Space Center where the original control room for the moon missions still exists. No longer used of course.
And be sure to stop by San Antonio and visit the Alamo and their Riverwalk.
Further west there is the Big Bend Park and near there is also Fort Davis up in a little mountain area that has a great state campground. Many of the buildings from that old Indian War era Army post are still standing.
And if you're into some strange things also in that area is the famous Marfa lights. Maybe if you're lucky going through there you could see them some night.
Near El Paso is White Sands National Monument which is well worth checking out. It's quite an impressive place.
I hope this gives you a few ideas to get started. Good traveling.
